avionics

Owners of Cessna Citation CJ1+ and CJ2+ light business jets who are looking to update their instrument panels now have a new option with Rockwell Collins’ touchscreen Pro Line Fusion system. But the owners will have to wait for about a year. Rockwell Collins announced the upgrade program this week and expects the FAA to […]

Kansas-based Clemens Aircraft has completed their 11th consecutive G5000 integrated flight deck upgrade in its fleet of Beechjet 400A/Hawker 400XP business jets, Garmin announced in a press release on Wednesday. The modifications include the integrated flight deck, winglets, new paint jobs, and interior changes. “After all of these upgrades, the G5000 in the Beechjet provides […]

Cessna Citation owners can now take advantage of Garmin International’s advanced avionics technology as the Olathe, Kansas-based company’s G700 Txi is now available for the light business jet series. Citation owners can get a single or dual 10.6-inch display installed through an STC made available by JETTECH, based in Broomfield, Colorado, and can be installed […]

CloudAhoy is used by pilots at all levels for post-flight debrief. CloudAhoy provides “Flight Debrief in the Age of Technology“. It is data-driven and incorporates artificial intelligence technology, advanced analysis, state of the art visualization, integration of video, and automatic scoring of flights (currently in beta). The ability to relive the flight, to quickly identify […]

Annapolis, Maryland-based Epic Optix has partnered with Textron Aviation on a $2,000 head-up display for general aviation that runs on aircraft power and mounts to the glareshield. The full-color HUD receives data via Wi-Fi from an Apple iPad or Android tablet running any electronic-flight-bag software, allowing users to view critical flight information without the need […]

The latest version of the popular Stratus portable ADS-B receiver from Sporty’s Pilot Shop and Appareo Systems made its debut at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in July, giving users subscription-free weather capabilities to go along with dual-band ADS-B traffic, GPS data and backup attitude information. Designed from the start to integrate with the ForeFlight Mobile app […]

Mineral Wells, Texas-based Genesys Aerosystems has added aircraft types to its list of Supplemental Type Certificated models for the S-TEC 3100 autopilot, bringing the list to more than 100 aircraft. Several models of the Cessna 300- and 400-series twins and the Piper PA-46 were recently added to the list and the company expects additional models, […]

uAvionix Corporation, developers of the recently TSOed skyBeacon, ADS-B Out system as well as a number of other tiny, light ADS-B transceivers and transponders, yesterday released the 1090nano, a 1090MHz ADS-B single chip solution for drone ADS-B transceivers, as well as detect and avoid applications. In early 2017, uAvionix introduced its T-UAT, a dime-sized 978MHz […]

Stop by your favorite general aviation airport and you are likely to find pilots in a spirited discussion, defending the merits of low-wing versus high-wing airplanes, or north-up versus track-up on a moving-map display. It didn’t take long after the Wright brothers’ first flight for pilots to form strong opinions in aviation, and today you […]

The maker of one of the most successful aviation app producers, ForeFlight, has an added feature called Trip Assistant. The new resource adds a whole new layer of support, making general aviation journeys more predictable. ForeFlight’s founder and CEO Tyson Weihs says the feature was developed to help ForeFlight’s employees who needed to know how […]